She Bought Her Mom A Home With A Condition That Her Brother And His Family Did Not Move In Too
This forty-six-year-old woman’s father abandoned her family when she was just a child. And ever since, her seventy-six-year-old mother has not been the same.
So now that she is an adult in stable financial condition, she tries to help out her mother as best she can with groceries and bills. But, caring for her mother is very complicated since her mom refuses to go live with her.
“She remains in the terrible house that my father gave her in the divorce. And my brother, sister-in-law, and their three children live in a house in the back,” she explained.
Apparently, her brother recognized that their childhood home had a huge yard and decided to build himself a house in the back. And since then, he has basically been using their mother as a free babysitter.
Plus, her mother also looks after the dogs her brother adopted and even pays for his children’s food sometimes. This is another huge issue since her mom only receives a small retirement salary that is really only enough to support one person.
“So, I have been saving money for more than a decade to buy her a house. And I finally got it,” she said.
The house is a simple one-bedroom and one-bathroom home with a large yard and garden. In other words, it is essentially perfect for her mother.
And after speaking to her mom, they both decided it would be best to keep the house under her name in case her brother ever tried to pull something.
“I also warned her that I did not want my brother to move in with her. But, in return, she would not have to worry about bills and food anymore since I would help. She looked relieved,” she recalled.
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After telling her brother about the new house at her mother’s request, though, he did not understand the new living arrangement. At first, her brother said it would be difficult for everyone to move into that small of a house. And then, he said he would eventually expand the home to fit their mother and his entire family in it all together.
But, she saw the despair flash across her mother’s face and quickly jumped in to make it clear that the house was for her mother alone– no one else. Still, though, her brother tried to suggest that he would help pay for their mother’s bills and food if he could move in.
So, she had to double down and tell her brother that their mother had accepted the gift under the condition that her brother would not live there. And how due to his history, she does not trust him to pay any bills at all.
This seriously pissed him off, though, and he began calling her selfish and a total jerk for giving a gift with that condition. He also claimed that she was trying to harm him purposefully and portray him as some monster.
So now, she is not sure what to do. She does not think giving her mother a peaceful place to spend her golden years is the wrong thing to do at all. But, her brother’s comments have made her wonder if she acted like a jerk.
Do you think she had a right to give her mom the home with a stipulation? If you were in her shoes, would you let the brother move in or not?
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